In Midnight Texas, Olivia Charity's past is unknown to the people in town. Manfred soon discovers something about her when he goes to Dallas for business. He sees her having dinner at the hotel where he is staying. She is with a couple Manfred hasn't ever seen. The next morning the couple is found dead in apparent murder/ suicide. But Manfred doesn't have long to ponder about this when he is embroiled in a sudden death of one of his patrons.

So goes the 2 book in this series. Fans of Charlaine will enjoy these quirky people who live in Midnight

Prosperous, Maine has always been a tight community who shunned outsiders. The residents are wealthy and their children's future is bright. In the heart of Prosperous, is an ancient church that was brought stone by stone from England. The town has many secrets surrounding the church.

Charlie Parker comes to Prosperous after a homeless man's death and the disappearance of his daughter are tied to the town. The citizens of Prosperous have no idea of the trouble headed their way.

This is the 12th book in the series and it delivers. Connolly delivers in this new installment.

This Christmas a vacant house is selected to be a show house. The local decorators will each have a room to decorate. Meg is pushed by Mother to be supervisor of all the decorators. Not an easy task, tempers flare and egos are in plenty supply.

Some one is wreaking rooms and merchandise that the decorators had ordered has gone missing. When a the body of a much- hated decorator is discovered, Meg must work fast to find the killer before the open house.

Lincoln Rhyme is facing a new predator, who is using the tunnels and basements, in New York City. Is he connected to the Bone Collector, who had terrorized the city.

This predator tattoos his victims with poison ink. Is he a copy cat or is he doing this for some dark and sinister reason. It's up to Rhyme and his team to solve this mystery to keep the death count from going up any further.

Jeffery Deaver is a new author for me. I intend to read the earlier books in this series.

This is not a typical western; it is raunchy, bawdy, and filled with graphic language. But it is also hilariously funny. Read by Jonathan Frakes (from Star Trek: The Next Generation), it is a novelization of the movie "A Million Ways to Die in the West", that was in theaters earlier this summer.